Imtjnotu
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Can't find it what the hell
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Marathon Server Slam CCU Watch
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Arsic
Loves his juicy stink trail scent
They were all paid and therefore positive so far.
A lot of them just do what their audience wants or states. Like Tim liked Highguard, wanted to play more, but his chat made it toxic AF so he didn't do it.
Marathon will be a mixed bag I imagine. Maybe one big influence Carrie's it for a bit.
hououinkyouma00
Member
It's PC/PS/XB.
I'm not sure how you can't find it. It's the first thing you see when you go to the store on PS5.
RafterXL
Member
Cohh played it for about 30 minutes and switched to Mewgenics. I've never seen him bounce off a game that quickly. He played Highguard for almost 3 hours at launch, and thought that game wasn't good from the jump, so switching to a different game 30 minutes into Marathon speaks for itself. You could tell he didn't enjoy any of it, and he's a big extraction fan.
Either way, I wouldn't expect honest opinions from most "influencers" until a week or so after launch. Highguard was filthy with positive vibes from all of them and it was a good game, etc. and that lasted for about 3 days and then all the people who glazed it, mostly paid I'm sure, dropped it like a bad habit.
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Ogbert
Member
Dr Disrespect doesn't really like it. Hates the UI. Says it's like looking at an excel spreadsheet converted to Wingdings. Doesn't think it's fun.
manfestival
Member
After putting in about 3 hours into the game I think I am done. Really feels like there is not much to do in the game. One of the missions is literally to break glass in buildings 20 times. Ah yes, thank you for sending me to commit vandalism. Map design and colors kinda lost appeal after going through it a few times and started to become immediately annoying. Less distinctive buildings seemingly and fairly easy to get confused. The UI is super trash. It never clicked for me. Anyways, I guess back to arc for me.
Also had some weird pvp experiences. The one pvp mission came up and went to try to do it but then ran into like nobody. Yet the match before 30 seconds in we got into a fight and the people that knocked us got third partied. Turns out it is only 4 teams on a small map and 6 teams on the larger one. Seems kinda small in scale for a pvp focused focused game.
Being able to be revived after being finished is pretty cool though. Really like that idea.
Also had some weird pvp experiences. The one pvp mission came up and went to try to do it but then ran into like nobody. Yet the match before 30 seconds in we got into a fight and the people that knocked us got third partied. Turns out it is only 4 teams on a small map and 6 teams on the larger one. Seems kinda small in scale for a pvp focused focused game.
Being able to be revived after being finished is pretty cool though. Really like that idea.
coachmcguirk91
Member
It maintained CCU's on Steam very well. It will 100% have a solid launch. Hopefully the delay means there is a strong pipeline of content within first couple months
Cakeboxer
Member
The question is how the CCU from a free test transfers to the €40 game.
coachmcguirk91
Member
You would be surprised. Most the time the higher CCU's are not the open betas but after the launch window, even for paid games
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Men_in_Boxes
Snake Oil Salesman
I don't think this game is going to retain low skill players.
It might be f**ked.
God sent Moses into the desert for 40 years. Now God tests me with Marathon. Why?
It might be f**ked.
God sent Moses into the desert for 40 years. Now God tests me with Marathon. Why?
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phant0m
Member
I find it really weird that people will watch a stream of a FREE game for 20 minutes and just decide it's 'not for them'
Like I get watching streams/reviews before you drop money on something but it costs nothing and isn't even that big (I think only 38 GB download?)
Or was your post just not in good faith at all and you just want to join the kool kidz club of driveby shitting?
phant0m
Member
A very good sign, don't need his faux-hardo sweaty ass in the game
Cyberpunkd
Member
Great news, since people should keep away from everything this guy likes.
SolarFry
Member
I'm just expressing my opinion, not sure why so defensive? I don't give feck if it succeeds or not, to me it looks boring af.
phant0m
Member
Just goes back to my first sentence. Why wouldn't you just actually try it?
Unless you never really were going to in the first place, and watching some streamers shit on it was all the validation you needed
Bry0
Member
It's gonna get sweaty in this game in 6 months. This is ez mode right now. lolI don't think this game is going to retain low skill players.
It might be f**ked.
God sent Moses into the desert for 40 years. Now God is tests me with Marathon.
LyricalShrike
Member
I'll watch a bit of no commentary gameplay of a game I'm unsure about while commuting or similar to avoid wasting my time which isn't free. I skipped highguard because what was on display didn't interest me.
I tried marathon since the idea appealed to me even if I won't be sticking around.
SolarFry
Member
I didn't watch streamers "shit on it", I didn't even listen to them, most/if not all streamers are annoying as feck, the last thing I want to do is listen to digital beggars. I just watched the game being played. Found it boring.
bighugeguns
Gold Member
I can't imagine an extraction shooter would be that crazy to watch someone else play, like watching people play Tarkov sucks for me, way better to actually get hands on with it. Watching other people play games is something I'll never really get.
phant0m
Member
In some ways I get it, people have loved watching other people play sports (games) for centuries -- but imo that's largely due to the level of play and physical spectacle being greater than what 99% of the population can achieve.
I mean, I love watching football but if I could throw touchdowns like Tom fuckin' Brady and not have my body destroyed I sure as hell would be playing it instead of watching.
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Men_in_Boxes
Snake Oil Salesman
My only hope is upgrading to all the low skill items and abusing them. I'm getting shredded tonight with my retarded thumbs.
EarsOfASnake
Member
So it peaked within the hour it released and everyone tried it, thought 'this is shit' and turn it off. Bungie is so dead.We are at half of the peek already.
Loomy
Thinks Microaggressions are Real
We are at half of the peek already.
It's night. Wtf do you expect.
ZehDon
Gold Member
Fun fact: the Earth is a sphere that orbits the Sun. As a result of its spherical shape, only half the planet is ever dark at one time. This is easily illustrated with the concept of time zones.
It's night. Wtf do you expect.
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Loomy
Thinks Microaggressions are Real
And where do the vast majority of players live?
TrebleShot
Member
Tried it but it either crashed or couldn't get into a game on pc and ps5. Played maybe 30mins total. Very nice gunplay love the sound design and atmosphere.
But doubt I'll play it much. Needs to be free
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But doubt I'll play it much. Needs to be free
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Mortisfacio
Member
Middle of the night
People just want to play the better game.
ZehDon
Gold Member
Asia.
LyricalShrike
Member
Where its afternoon/early evening on friday now.
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EarsOfASnake
Member
For this game? In the time zones that have already had a chance to play it and said 'nah, this ain't it bro'
It's afternoon in China right now
WhamBamThankYouMaam
Member
US+canada has around 300 million gamers.
Europe has around 700 million gamers.
Asia has 1,5 BILLION gamers.
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Negotiator101
Member
Numbers have plummeted fast, I don't know I thought it was doing great at the start but it's fallen off a cliff. Is it not very good?
WhamBamThankYouMaam
Member
There seem to be a lot of people loving it, I am sure it will do fine. I actually cancelled my preorder personally, but I was in the "lets see what it is like camp" and only put it since I knew I would get to try it out.
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Negotiator101
Member
I'm trying it after work but I don't like the art direction at all and I've seen nothing that excites me but we'll see. It's just the number's on Steam were good at the start but its seen a rapid decline which says to me people aren't sticking with it.
Hollywood Hitman
Gold Member
It only had about 43 or 45k more players than Highguard, I don't think full price is gonna do this game any favors either
WhamBamThankYouMaam
Member
Yesh, I don't know what to read into that really. What I do know is that the numbers did not explode during asian prime time.
One could argue that it is better for them to have a core audience that actually spends money in a gaas game than having a lot of people that don't. Then again, given huge numbers of players the natural result would of course be more players that spent money there.
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ZehDon
Gold Member
I've seen some positives, but the vast majority of opinions are negatives. Most people dislike the art direction, lethargic pace, poor visual readability, and UI. Someone on Reddit summed it up as: "When you design a game to look like cheap plastic crap, the game will look like cheap plastic crap." I predicted Marathon will find a small niche of daily players, and I think that holds true. Some people are genuinely enjoying the game. With that said, Bungie has bet the future of their company on this game, all but killed Destiny 2 to support it, and Sony is demanding a billion dollar GAAS. I'm not sure what happens after launch, but Marathon isn't going to deliver anything close to that. I think Arc Raiders simply did too much damage, and Marathon isn't on that same level. As I said before: I think Bungie is in legitimate trouble here.
kunonabi
Member
Pretty much where I'm at although the UI being completely unintelligible to spectators doesn't help matters. The moment to moment gameplay didn't fare much better especially compared to Arc which is super fun to just watch. I thought Marathon was going to carve out a decent audience for itself but I'm not so sure anymore.
GymWolf
Member
Many people would argue that peak halo was peak bungie, just saying.
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Windom Earle
Member
Can you really call that a server slam?
Branded
Member
A known quantity in an accessible/popular genre.Middle of the night
Cyberpunkd
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